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machine-gun

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ma·chine-gun (m-shngn)
tr.v. ma·chine-gunned, ma·chine-gun·ning, ma·chine-guns
To fire at or kill with a machine gun.
adj.
Fast and staccato: a machine-gun style of speaking.

machine gunner n.
Translations
machine-gun [məˈʃiːngʌn] VTametrallar
machine-gun [məˈʃiːnˌgʌn] vtmitragliare
machine-gun [məˈʃiːnˌgʌn] vtmitragliare


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He noted machine-gun emplacements cunningly hidden from the view of the British and listening posts placed well out in No Man's Land.
Besides pistol and rifle, there was the machine-gun mounted in front of him on the plane, and ammunition for all three.
And very faint now, but very distinct through the hot, quiet air, one heard the whirr of a machine-gun that was presently stilled, and an intermittent cracking of rifles.
 
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